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There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic ...

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The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservat...

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The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you wh...

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Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journali...

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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I...

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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to...

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Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of Ameri...

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I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should...

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If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides of a question to worry him; gi...

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The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess s...

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A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting relig...

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Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparen...

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There are times when every act, no matter how private or unconscious, becomes political. Whom you li...

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There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when i...

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...

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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an inst...

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Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' w...

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If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other...

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Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my fa...

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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed b...

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Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government,...

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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalis...

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When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Let the revolution begin.

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Ron PaulThe Revolution: A Manifesto

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly ...

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I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication...

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Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It'...

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Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilizatio...

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Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to t...

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I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a pea...

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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously ...

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We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had...

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I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insinceriti...

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We do not get to vote on who owns what, or on relations in factory and so on, for all this is deemed...

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Slavoj ŽižekThe Year of Dreaming Dangerously

... had to pee like a racehorse at an Iced Tea convention.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical cla...

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We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nati...

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If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the econo...

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Every individual, however original he may be, is still a child of God, of his age, of his nation, of...

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There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should e...

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Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 2...

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Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political...

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There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it ha...

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I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fight...

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It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on w...

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They plot, they plot, sleeping or afoot they never let up.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you...

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All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is pa...

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One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate a...

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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right—creating gre...

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Thomas SowellThe Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's de...

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Man is now able to fly through the air like a bird, he is able to swim under the sea like a fish, he...

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I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking ste...

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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming ...

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Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying pi...

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The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You'reborn with it, like your ey...

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So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...

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Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Col...

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Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justi...

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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassmen...

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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the ...

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Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite gre...

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implemen...

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The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice und...

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The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of ...

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If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are goi...

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We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred...

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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

History teaches usthat men and nationsonly behave wiselyonce they have exhaustedall other alternativ...

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Abba EbanPersonal Witness: Israel Through My Eyes

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse...

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As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the supp...

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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military ...

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This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration....

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I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political si...

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Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointmen...

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I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the ps...

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Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events...

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And this man, who had sailed round Europe and navigated the Great Northern Route, leaned happily ove...

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Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or no...

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For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for th...

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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cea...

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Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is th...

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Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and butt...

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